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Originally Posted by phylt
"Scientists say". Enough said. That's like saying "my data shows that"... Or "the survey says...". Or "my statistics show"... I'm NOT saying that it's wrong, BUT it's simple to make statements based upon "scientists". Case in point many decisions re COVID, and what "Scientists said", and were flat wrong.
And THIS is why I asked in my Thread post to pleeeaaasssse not go thru the Global Warming/Climate Change - or totally against it.....arguments. It's been so overdone on TOTV, and what changes??? just more yada - by all of us. And changes ZERO minds. I'm done with my yada.
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1st....what scientists said about COVID was NOT wrong overall. Some ordinary people took what was said by the CDC EARLY-ON before all the tests and information had come in (developed). Then later as the KNOWLEDGE about the disease increased (matured), the CDC made other statements. Then the anti-science people compared the LATER knowledge with the EARLY knowledge and said, "Ah Ha, the CDC is inconsistent and therefore wrong, so nobody should believe them.
.......Well, science EVOLVES, knowledge does NOT stand still. To use a simple analogy.....think of scientific knowledge as a flowing stream that picks up more rain as it goes - do NOT think of it as a static, fixed in place, LAKE.
........And one point of a community forum IS to change minds.To put down in writing an individual opinion ( like mine) and MAYBE it changes some minds. If enough people read it then SOME minds MIGHT open up to that opinion. And SOME may NOT. It never hurts to try. People talk at church. People talk at bowling. That changes minds. When someone goes to bowling, they don't carry a sign that says, "only talk to me about the things that I have already made up my mind about." So, theoretically ALL human conversation involves SOME changing of minds.